War and Foreign Policy

All children eventually learn that the presents under the Christmas tree come from family and friends, who must pay for them with their own money, and not from Santa Claus.

National Review’s purging of the John Birch Society was done because the Birchers began to turn against the Vietnam War.

David Beito’s new biography on Franklin D. Roosevelt is not the hagiographic nonsense that has dominated the US history profession. That is a good thing. Americans should know how FDR’s presidency led to one disaster after another.

Americans like to think of themselves as peace-loving people. However, our nation’s war record since the American Civil War points to the US government’s affinity for unleashing total war.

David Beito’s new biography on Franklin D. Roosevelt is not the hagiographic nonsense that has dominated the US history profession. That is a good thing. Americans should know how FDR’s presidency led to one disaster after another.

Libertarianism and free markets depend upon peace. Murray Rothbard believed that war destroys freedom and free exchange, so keeping the peace is vitally important.

The Mexican-War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young US soldier who fought—Ulysses Grant—knew better, exposing the lies from Washington.

The Mexican-War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young US soldier—Ulysses Grant—knew better.

Many of the same Democratic lawmakers now condemning the shooting of survivors of the alleged drug boat strike had no problem when presidents they liked greenlit even worse strikes. But that doesn’t excuse Trump’s awful escalation in the Caribbean.

Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the hagiographic approach most US historians take toward him.